Soviet TV hoax claimed Lenin was a mushroom

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIn the Soviet Union, a Leningrad television show ran for over thirty minutes arguing that Lenin was a mushroom.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe evidence is solid. Lenin spelled backwards is ninel, and ninel is a French mushroom dish.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo a word, read backwards, is now a mushroom.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the armoured car he stood on to address crowds looks like a mushroom spore in cross section.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's two sources, which is more than most threads have.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSergey Sholokhov, the reporter, says older Communist Party members asked the regional committee to check it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the answer?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA functionary replied that a mammal cannot be a plant. That was the official rebuttal.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMushrooms are a fungus, so he's wrong twice.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThirty minutes of television, and the only official who got anything right was the one who filed a reply.